Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

Every man is free to rise as far as he's able or willing but the degree to which he thinks determines the degree to which he'll rise.

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

There's always an opportunity to make a difference

Political debate is political debate and that's fine. That's healthy.

For new ideas to be translated into new realities requires not only clarity of vision but also the opportunity to change old realities.

The generality of men are so accustomed to judge of things by their senses that, because the air is indivisible, they ascribe but little to it, and think it but one remove from nothing.

Those are the two things: a sense of loving and being loved, and being creative - that is what life is made up of, and what literature reminds us of.

We were all born robots. We were all born slaves to our sin. We did what the flesh and what the devil told us to do. For those of us that have been freed by Jesus, we don't have to be robots.